I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and that meant I grew up with computers. Our first home computer was an Apple II, and my brother and I taught ourselves about BASIC programming on the Apple. I wrote a lot of games and math puzzles, because that’s really…

And why it matters to political behaviour

One thing it took me quite a while to understand is how few bits of information it's possible to reliably convey to a large number of people.

When I was at MS, I remember initially being surprised at how unnuanced their communication was, but it really makes…

One fine June afternoon in 1598,  five ships in Rotterdam ready their departure for a long journey. The crew have been told that their destination will be the Moluccas to buy spices, and to explore the "Silver-rycke" (the Silver Empire) of Japan. But once…

NFTs are emblematic of capitalism’s growing retreat from productive activity — and the wealthy’s desire to extend their dominion into the digital ether. They’re worse than useless.

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YCombinator is not worth it, a thread:

When teaching introductory OR courses I have often found that presenting counter-intuitive or paradox-like results is a great eye-opener for the students. I use these examples and results as a moti...

A friend of mine recently turned down a job promotion that included…Read on Insider.com SubscribeINSIDER FEATURED ARTICLE ECONOMY Employers are failing to address the new realities of work — and it’s sparking a ‘Hidden Resignation’ of burned-out employeesBy…

Nature - A hybrid algorithm that applies backpropagation is used to train layers of controllable physical systems to carry out calculations like deep neural networks, but accounting for real-world...

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The uncompromising code formatter.

Thanks to @rg3 who created this program the project has a new maintainer. Also, many thanks to @dstftw and @remitamine for holding the fort over the last several years. I hope that we'll be abl...